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Re: comp.agents? (was: Dylan Agents)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederic Janssens)
Fri Aug 26 10:28:02 1994
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:47:09 +0200
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From: fjanss@iridia0.ulb.ac.be (Frederic Janssens)
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Concerning the use of IDL, "Dish" (Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco)
seems to be an interesting example. Fresco operations are specified in IDL,
Dish is a shell interfacing Fresco to tcl scripts.
<A href="ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/dish.ps.Z">
ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/dish.ps.Z</A>
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> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 23:57:24 +0200
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> From: "Steven D. Majewski" <sdm7g@elvis.med.virginia.edu>
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> Subject: comp.agents? (was: Dylan Agents)
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> in Message-Id: <9408251435.AA08810@olympia.fx.com> in comp.lang.dylan
> "Richard M. Emberson" <emberson@fx.com> wrote:
>
> > Mr. Stephen McConnell had asked me last week if my interest in being able
> > to ship Dylan code around a network had to do with agents.
> > After replying that at best I was interested in very dumb agents
> > I got to thinking about the more general problem of implementing
> > agents with Dylan a la telescript/General Magic.
[...]
> Perhaps COBRA/OMG/DSOM/IDL is the way to provide these capabilities
> in a language neutral manner. I don't know - I haven't had time to
> read up on the protocols in detail. I don't get the impression that
> they SOLVE any of these problems, but perhaps they provide another
> framework.
>
> -- Steve Majewski (804-982-0831) <sdm7g@Virginia.EDU> --
> -- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics --
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> [ "Cognitive Science is where Philosophy goes when it dies ...
> if it hasn't been good!" - Jerry Fodor ]
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